{"id":381,"date":"2009-03-28T17:18:35","date_gmt":"2009-03-28T23:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/?p=381"},"modified":"2009-03-28T17:18:35","modified_gmt":"2009-03-28T23:18:35","slug":"fudoshinabove-the-fray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/?p=381","title":{"rendered":"Fudoshin\/Above the Fray"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you find yourself in a confrontation often you become your own worst enemy.\u00a0 You hesitate and have movements full of fear.\u00a0 This is deadly to a martial artist.\u00a0 If your heart is filled with fear, you can&#8217;t use the techniques that you have leaned.<\/p>\n<p>Trust me when I say, if you hesitate things get worse.\u00a0 I won&#8217;t bore you with details online, but if you ask me over a pint or two I will let you know.\u00a0 When a fight breaks out lives are on the line, there is no time for you to doubt yourself.\u00a0 This leads us to fudoshin&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Fudo shin or the immovable heart is an important skill to learn.\u00a0 In the martial arts it is essential, but it will serve you well in life.\u00a0 Having a heart which can stay calm despite adversity will make you a much better martial artist, able to defend themselves and not lose your head.\u00a0 When you loose yourself to anger you loose track of your goals.<\/p>\n<p>So in class as teachers and students, train fudoshin so that you will be ready for all sorts of situations in life.\u00a0 I may post some more on this when I am a bit more motivated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you find yourself in a confrontation often you become your own worst enemy.\u00a0 You hesitate and have movements full of fear.\u00a0 This is deadly to a martial artist.\u00a0 If your heart is filled with fear, you can&#8217;t use the techniques that you have leaned. Trust me when I say, if you hesitate things get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-training-at-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=381"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":383,"href":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions\/383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}